Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Frankel Institute Event Series: Stranger Still: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Israel/Palestine (December 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79038 79038-20178454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This series showcases the diversity of poetic voices from Israel/Palestine through the lens of translation. Each event features a multilingual poetry reading and a conversation between poets and translators on the careful negotiations that are involved in the act of translation, highlighting work that creates its own currents against and beyond the Israeli mainstream.

Vaan Nguyen has been described as “a veritable juggler of Hebrew.” Born in 1982 in Israel to refugees of the Vietnam War, Nguyen’s poems travel far and wide, taking in views of Hanoi, Manhattan, Paris, Milan, Salzburg, Pasadena and more. Through these movements, Nguyen reflects on how our lives take shape in the daily migrations we make between lovers, family, work, and the places we call home. She is the author of the poetry collections *The Truffle Eye* (Ma’ayan Press, 2013) and Vain Ratio (Barchash, 2018). In addition to poetry, she has worked as an actress, journalist, and social activist. She currently lives in Jaffa and is writing her first novel.

Adriana X. Jacobs is this year’s Co-head Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of *Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry* (University of Michigan Press, 2018). Her translations have appeared in various print and online journals, including *Gulf Coast*, *Seedings*, *World Literature Today*, *Poetry International*, and *The Ilanot Review*. Her translation into English of Vaan Nguyen’s *The Truffle Eye* will be published by Zephyr Press in early 2021.

Advance Registration Required: https://forms.gle/Z6WRekCB974Hz8EbA
The Zoom Webinar link will be sent out before the event.

(photo credit: Shaxaf Haber)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:15:33 -0400 2020-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual photo credit: Shaxaf Haber
Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival: Miriam Udel (December 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79202 79202-20231443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join author Miriam Udel as she presents her book *Honey on the Page: A Treasure of Yiddish Children’s Literature*. An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations

*Honey on the Page* lays out a feast of nearly fifty stories and poems for children, translated from the original Yiddish. Arranged thematically—from school days to the holidays—the book takes readers from Jewish holidays and history to folktales and fables, from stories of humanistic ethics to multi-generational family sagas. Featuring many works that are appearing in English for the first time, and written by both prominent and lesser-known authors, this anthology spans the Yiddish-speaking globe—drawing from materials published in Eastern Europe, New York, and Latin America from the 1910s, during the interwar period, and up through the 1970s. With its vast scope, Honey on the Page offers a cornucopia of delights to families, individuals and educators seeking literature that speaks to Jewish children about their religious, cultural, and ethical heritage.

Miriam Udel is an Associate Professor in the German Studies at the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Event Info: https://book.jccannarbor.org/schedule/honey-on-the-page-a-treasure-of-yiddish-childrens-literature/
Registration Info: https://operations.daxko.com/Online/4088/ProgramsV2/OfferingDetails.mvc?program_id=TMP29837&offering_id=SES698911&location_id=B368

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:46:56 -0500 2020-12-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Honey on the Page
Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival: Eshkol Nevo (December 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79614 79614-20430438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join author Eshkol Nevo as he presents his book *The Last Interview: A Novel*

From the internationally best-selling author of *Three Floors Up*, a literary page-turner that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona.

A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they stick to the standard fare: Did you always know you would be a writer? How autobiographical are your books? Have you written any stories you would never publish? Usually his answers in these situations are measured, calculated, cautious. But this time, when his heart is about to break and his life is about to crumble, he finds he cannot tell anything but the truth. The naked, funny, sad, scandalous, politically incorrect truth.

Every question the writer tackles opens a door to a hidden room of his life. Each of his answers reveals that at the heart of every truth there is a lie–and vice versa. Surprising, bold, intimate, and utterly engrossing, The Last Interview shows just how tenuous the lines are between work and life; love and hate; fact and fiction. And in exploring the many, often contradictory, facets of an Israeli author’s identity, Eshkol Nevo also gives us a nuanced, thought-provoking portrait of a country at odds with itself.

Eshkol Nevo is one of Israel’s most successful living writers, whose novels have all been bestsellers in Israel and published widely in translation. Nevo grew up in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Detroit. He is the grandson of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, for whom he was named. He teaches creative writing and thinking at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv University, Sapir College and the Open University of Israel.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:39:16 -0500 2020-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual The Last Interview
Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival: Sarah Stein (December 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79120 79120-20209858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join author Sarah Stein as she presents her book "Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century"

For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, in the process transforming the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Family members soon moved across boundaries and hemispheres, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil, and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the clan, eradicating whole branches of the family tree.

Named one of the best books of 2019 by The Economist and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist.

Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and holds the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She is the author or editor of many books, including "Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century" and "Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce." The recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Jewish Book Awards, Stein lives with her family in Santa Monica, CA.

More Information: https://book.jccannarbor.org/schedule/family-papers-a-sephardic-journey-through-the-twentieth-century/
Register Online: https://operations.daxko.com/Online/4088/ProgramsV2/OfferingDetails.mvc?program_id=TMP29837&offering_id=SES698917&location_id=B368

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:39:58 -0500 2020-12-15T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Family Papers Book Cover
Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival: Esther Safran Foer (December 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79140 79140-20215741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join author Esther Safran Foer as she presents her book "I Want You To Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir"

I Want You to Know We’re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther’s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.

Esther Safran Foer (born 1946) is a writer and the former Executive Director of Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.

Event Information: https://book.jccannarbor.org/schedule/i-want-you-to-know-were-still-here-a-post-holocaust-memoir/
Register Here: https://operations.daxko.com/Online/4088/ProgramsV2/OfferingDetails.mvc?program_id=TMP29837&offering_id=SES698919&location_id=B368

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:38:48 -0500 2020-12-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual I Want You To Know We’re Still Here
To Travel a Different Road: The Translation of African-American Poetry into Yiddish, 1925-1936 (January 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80077 80077-20556854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

In 1936, a Yiddish-language anthology Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America) was published in Moscow. It was compiled and translated by the Kiev-born, American educated Robert Magidoff, and remains to this day the most extensive corpus of African-Diasporic poetry in Yiddish translation. The presentation will examine the anthology’s position amongst different notions of “the folk” in Soviet Yiddish ethnography and folkloristics, the writings of James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois, with whom Magidoff corresponded, and the Yiddish modernist poetry of Shmuel Halkin, who edited the book series in which the anthology appears. When placed alongside DuBois's and others' visits to the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the appearance of African-American poetry in Yiddish translation shows how a transatlantic Jewish avant-garde interpreted and embedded itself within Soviet-African-American contacts in between the Two World Wars. Magidoff served as a Soviet correspondent for NBC and the Associated Press from 1935.
He was accused of espionage and expelled from the USSR in 1948. In 1963 he defended a PhD in Russian literature at the University of Michigan Slavic Department.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:40:39 -0500 2021-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Livestream / Virtual Eli Rosenblatt received his PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019-20, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
JMRN Seminar: Affective trouble: a Jewish/Palestinian heterosexual wedding threatening the Israeli nation-state? (January 25, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79763 79763-20486023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

*Jewish-Muslim Research Network Seminar*

The aim of this presentation is to illustrate and analyze the reactions of some mainstream Israeli politicians to a celebrity marriage between Tzahi Halevi, a Jewish Israeli actor, and Lucy Aharish, a Palestinian Israeli TV personality. Drawing upon the notion of stance, we unveil the affective trouble generated by this heterosexual union vis-à-vis the Israeli national project. More specifically, we tease out the kaleidoscopic collage of politicians’ affective (dis)attachments in relation to Halevi, Aharish and a variety of socioculturally relevant categories such as the Israeli nation. This affective patchwork, we argue, is itself the product of a tension that is at the very heart of the Israeli nation-state, that between the policing of Jewishness as the defining principle of the Israeli national imagined community, on the one hand, and the upholding of the democratic imperative to equal treatment and recognition, on the other.

Roey J. Gafter is a senior lecturer in the department of Hebrew Language at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a sociolinguist whose work focuses on the use of linguistic resources in the construction of ethnic identities. His research explores sociophonetic variation in Hebrew, the Israeli construction of ethnic identity from a discourse analytic perspective, and contact between Hebrew and Arabic. He has published, *inter alia*, in the *Journal of Sociolinguistics, Social Semiotics, and Linguistic Inquiry*.

Tommaso M. Milani is a critical discourse analyst who is interested in the ways in which power imbalances are (re)produced and/or contested through semiotic means. His main research foci are: language ideologies, language policy and planning, linguistic landscape, as well as language, gender and sexuality. He has published extensively on these topics in international journals and edited volumes. Among his publications are the edited collection Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections and Dislocations (Routledge, 2016) and the special issue of the journal Linguistic Landscape on Gender, Sexuality and Linguistic Landscapes (2018). He is co-editor of the journal Language in Society.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldeiopj4sGdD5vHKjgcHI9tOIfbyR8LiR

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:08:37 -0500 2021-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Gafter and Milani
Orientalism and Monotheism: Renan on Judaism and Islam (January 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80679 80679-20775557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Throughout the nineteenth century, the birth of what one may call philologia orientalis and the discovery of the linguistic similarities between Sanskrit and European languages radically transformed the perception of the East, much weakening the idea of a family relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The case of Ernest Renan (1823-1892) is here emblematic. The lecture will survey Renan’s conception of Judaism and Islam, through his invention of the category of “Semitic religions.” We shall reflect on its consequences on the study of monotheism among historians of religions, as well as on the development of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the last decades of the century.

Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/3216105505888/WN_oYvSLryURveHxXW0tu-28Q

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:12:37 -0500 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Ernest Renan
Sister Scholars: The Emergence of Orthodox Girls' Education in Interwar Poland (February 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79711 79711-20460251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This lecture will trace the revolution in the name of tradition enacted by Sarah Schenirer, a divorced seamstress with an eighth-grade education, who created a girls' school system, Bais Yaakov, that rescued Orthodox Jewish society at a moment of peril. Bais Yaakov continues to thrive in hundreds of locations today, and Bais Yaakov students consider themselves the spiritual daughters of Schenirer.
Naomi Seidman is a Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies during the 2020-21 year, and the Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto. Her book on Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov movement won a National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies in 2019.

Event link: https://culturalarts.jccdet.org/events/sister-scholars-the-emergence-of-orthodox-girls-education-in-interwar-poland/

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:23:20 -0500 2021-02-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Naomi Seidman
Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience (February 4, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77490 77490-19875787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The study of modern Jewish cultural production in the United States has focused on the East and West coasts, particularly on the “center” of New York City. This Mellon-Sawyer seminar spotlights the Midwest as an interconnected region where Jewish writing and art flourished, addressing pressing social and political issues: urban sprawl, industrialization and worker abuse, gender, and racial inequalities.

The participants in the seminar, hailing from Midwestern institutions, will be presenting their research on Yiddish writers in urban contexts such as Detroit or Chicago, while also asking how might we reassess the landscape of Jewish American culture in view of these newly discussed materials? What contributions did Midwestern artists or those who observed this region make within the field of Yiddish letters? What role did translation and multilingualism play in Jewish writing about Midwestern society and how can we translate twentieth-century Yiddish literature for a contemporary audience?


Event Schedule:

Thursday, February 4th

2:00-3:30 pm
Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan:
Opening remarks

Julian Levinson, University of Michigan:
Ezra Korman and Jewish Detroit

4:00-5:15 pm
“Ezra Korman, Poet of My City”
Performance by Mikhl Yashinsky, followed by Q&A with Mikhail Krutikov


Friday, February 5th

9:00-9:50 am
Erin Faigin, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Centers and Provinces: H. Leivick & I. I. Segal

10:00-10:50 am
Jessica Kirzane, University of Chicago:
Pessie Pomerantz-Honigbaum’s Poetry: In-Progress Translations

11:00-11:50 am
Anna Torres, University of Chicago:
Malka Heifetz Tussman and the Chicago Anarchist Press

1:00-1:50 pm
Sunny Yudkoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Lune Mattes: Miniature Skyscrapers

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:05:40 -0500 2021-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Mellon Sawyer Seminar 2021
Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience (February 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77490 77490-19875788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The study of modern Jewish cultural production in the United States has focused on the East and West coasts, particularly on the “center” of New York City. This Mellon-Sawyer seminar spotlights the Midwest as an interconnected region where Jewish writing and art flourished, addressing pressing social and political issues: urban sprawl, industrialization and worker abuse, gender, and racial inequalities.

The participants in the seminar, hailing from Midwestern institutions, will be presenting their research on Yiddish writers in urban contexts such as Detroit or Chicago, while also asking how might we reassess the landscape of Jewish American culture in view of these newly discussed materials? What contributions did Midwestern artists or those who observed this region make within the field of Yiddish letters? What role did translation and multilingualism play in Jewish writing about Midwestern society and how can we translate twentieth-century Yiddish literature for a contemporary audience?


Event Schedule:

Thursday, February 4th

2:00-3:30 pm
Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan:
Opening remarks

Julian Levinson, University of Michigan:
Ezra Korman and Jewish Detroit

4:00-5:15 pm
“Ezra Korman, Poet of My City”
Performance by Mikhl Yashinsky, followed by Q&A with Mikhail Krutikov


Friday, February 5th

9:00-9:50 am
Erin Faigin, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Centers and Provinces: H. Leivick & I. I. Segal

10:00-10:50 am
Jessica Kirzane, University of Chicago:
Pessie Pomerantz-Honigbaum’s Poetry: In-Progress Translations

11:00-11:50 am
Anna Torres, University of Chicago:
Malka Heifetz Tussman and the Chicago Anarchist Press

1:00-1:50 pm
Sunny Yudkoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Lune Mattes: Miniature Skyscrapers

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:05:40 -0500 2021-02-05T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Mellon Sawyer Seminar 2021
“Our Father”: The Medieval Abrahamic Religion(s) (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80700 80700-20775563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In contemporary parlance, the term “Abrahamic religions” serves to indicate the common ground of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The designation of these three religions as “Abrahamic” is used as a shorthand for their supposed common ancestry as well as for their assumed shared religious principles and values. Since its very purpose is to highlight the commonality of the three religions, the term is always used in the plural.
For medieval thinkers in the Islamicate world, however, the Abrahamic model of religion was radically different from the contemporary one. This lecture will try to show, they referred to Abraham either in order to highlight the exclusive veracity of one specific religion, or, at times, to transcend all conventional religiosity.

Advanced Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/1816105512605/WN_hjo-P71UROGJ4_Opr1n6gA

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:12:02 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Abraham Lilien
Frankel Institute Event Series: Stranger Still: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Israel/Palestine (February 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79710 79710-20460250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In this installment of the “Stranger Still” series, we invite the poets and translators Sabine Huynh (French, English, Hebrew) and Karen Alkalay-Gut (English, Hebrew, Yiddish) to join us in a conversation about their experiences as multilingual poets in Israel and the role of translation in their work. They will read selections of their poems and translations, including their recent collaboration: Huynh’s French translation Alkalay-Gut’s collection of Holocaust poetry, Surviving Her Story/Survivre à son histoire.

Karen Alkalay-Gut was born in London on the last night of the V-1 flying bomb attacks and grew up in Rochester, New York, completing a PhD in 1975 at the University of Rochester. Since 1972 she has lived in Israel, raising a family, and is retired from teaching poetry at Tel Aviv University. She was the founding chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English, a position she held until 2014 and resumed in 2018. She was Vice Chair of the former Federation of Writers Unions in Israel and is currently a board member of the Yiddish Writers Association. She has written poetry for the cabaret ensemble Panic Ensemble, as well as wide-ranging essays and scholarly articles. Her poetry publications include the recent collections A Word in Edgewise (English), Derakhim le-ehov (Ways to Love, Hebrew), and Yerusha (Inheritance, Yiddish/Hebrew).

Sabine Huynh is a poet, translator and editor based in Tel Aviv. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of a dozen books (poetry, novel, short stories, essay, diary), and numerous translations (from the French, Hebrew and English). Her poetry collections include Kvar lo, which won France’s 2017 CoPo Poetry Prize, and Dans le tournant/Into the Turning, a bilingual English-French book co-authored with Amy Hollowell. Her first novel, La Mer et l’enfant, was shortlisted for the 2014 Emmanuel-Roblès Prize and for the 2013 Chambery’s First Novel Festival Prize. With Haggai Linik, she is the founding editor of the French-Hebrew literary translation magazine Peham. Her latest poetry collection Parler peau (« to speak skin ») was illustrated by Philippe Agostini and published last year by Æncrages & Co. Her French translation of the complete poetry of Anne Sexton is due out in 2021 with the feminist publishing house Editions des Femmes.
Huynh Photo Credit: Miriam Alster


Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/1216070911601/WN_IsQh-wJARNmcGBeqKf60Qg

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:20:59 -0500 2021-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Sabine Huynh and Karen Alkalay-Gut
Releasing Roots: Hebrew Poetry in Translation (February 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79709 79709-20460249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Jacobs is a scholar and translator of modern Hebrew poetry whose academic research is intertwined with her work as a literary translator. Drawing from her translations of Hebrew poetry—by Leah Goldberg, Vaan Nguyen, and Hezy Leskly, among others—Jacobs will share her experiences as a scholar-translator and the research that her practice of translation has made possible.

Event link: https://culturalarts.jccdet.org/events/releasing-roots-hebrew-poetry-in-translation/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:10:56 -0500 2021-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Adriana X. Jacobs
After *After Jews and Arabs* (February 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81200 81200-20872026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Ammiel Alcalay’s groundbreaking work,* After Jews and Arabs*, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of relations between Jews and Arabs in the Levantine/Mediterranean world over a thousand-year period. Based on over a decade of research and fieldwork in many disciplines—including history and historiography; anthropology, ethnography, and ethnomusicology; political economy and geography; linguistics; philosophy; and the history of science and technology—the book presented a radically different perspective than that presented by received opinion.
Given the radical and iconoclastic nature of Alcalay’s perspective, *After Jews and Arabs* met great resistance in attempts to publish it. Though completed and already circulating in 1989, it didn’t appear until 1993. In addition, when the book was published, there wasn’t enough space to include its original bibliography, a foundational part of the project.
This spring, *A Bibliography for “After Jews and Arabs”* will appear with Punctum Books, presenting the original and unchanged bibliography as a glimpse into the historical record of a unique scholarly, political, poetic, and cultural journey, along with three accompanying texts. JMRN is delighted to mark the publication of *A Bibliography for “After Jews and Arabs”* and reflect on the legacy of *After Jews and Arabs*, nearly 30 years later, with a conversation between Ammiel Alcalay and Gil Anidjar.


Poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay teaches at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His books include *After Jews and Arabs*, *Memories of Our Future*, *Islanders, neither wit nor gold: from then, from the warring factions, and a little history*. Forthcoming books include the co-edited *A Dove in Flight: Poems by Faraj Bayrakdar*, with Shareah Taleghani and the New York Translation Collective, a poem sequence, Ghost Talk, and *A Bibliography for After Jews & Arabs*. He was given a 2017 American Book Award from The Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of *Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative *(lostandfoundbooks.org).

Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author, among other books, of *The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy *(Stanford 2003) and *Semites: Race, Religion, Literature* (Stanford 2008).


Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocu2spz8iH9Uph5s5TKi75jcy7IUrH3jk

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:26:56 -0500 2021-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual A Bibliography for “After Jews and Arabs”
Magic in Mame-Loshn: Translating Harry Potter into Yiddish (March 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79545 79545-20375058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Harry Potter series is the most-translated book series of all time, having appeared in languages as various as Tamil, Ancient Greek, and Hawaiian. In this talk, Viswanath will be talking about the journey and challenge of translating Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone into Yiddish. Along the way, he will address questions and topics such as: Is Harry Potter particularly difficult to translate? What does it mean to translate something into a Jewish language? Who is reading Harry Potter in Yiddish? The book can be ordered online [harrypotter.olniansky.com], and a recording of the first chapter is available on Youtube [youtube.com/watch?v=6_fB0ZsjpgE].

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:55:28 -0500 2021-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Yiddish Harry Potter Cover
The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (March 2, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80392 80392-20713709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of Muslim refugees with the “Muslim conquest of 711,” warning that Europe will be called on to defend its borders. Violence and paranoia are alive and well in Fortress Europe.

Against this xenophobic tendency, *The Feeling of History* examines the idea of Andalucismo—a modern tradition founded on the principle that contemporary Andalusia is connected in vitally important ways with medieval Islamic Iberia. Charles Hirschkind explores the works and lives of writers, thinkers, poets, artists, and activists, and he shows how, taken together, they constitute an Andalusian sensorium. Hirschkind also carefully traces the various itineraries of Andalucismo, from colonial and anticolonial efforts to contemporary movements supporting immigrant rights. *The Feeling of History* offers a nuanced view into the way people experience their own past, while also bearing witness to a philosophy of engaging the Middle East that experiments with alternative futures.

Charles Hirschkind is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests concern religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. His published works include, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia 2006), Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (co-edited with David Scott, Stanford 2005), and The Feeling for History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (Chicago 2020)

Flora Hastings is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and a freelance journalist. Her research interests include Jewish-Muslim relations in contemporary Barcelona, progressive forms of Judaism and Islam, neo-liberalism, migration and contemporary European identity, diasporic identity, and modernisation processes. Flora is also a coordinator of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:10:34 -0500 2021-03-02T12:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual The Feeling of History
Feuilleton Workshop - 1930s Feuilletons: Salonica and Berlin (March 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82203 82203-21052538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Tamir Karkason, Ben Gurion University, “Being Jewish Salonicans: Ladino Satirical Feuilletons in the 1930s”
Kerry Wallach, Gettysburg College, “Rahel Szalit’s Purim and Passover Stories in the Jüdische Rundschau“

You are invited to attend the second in a series of online workshops that explores the relationship between the feuilleton and modern Jewish cultures. These workshops, taking place in fall 2020 and spring 2021, hope to shed light on the interaction between translation and multilingual feuilleton texts as they arise in certain national and linguistic contexts and travel, often through translation, to others often worlds apart. For those unfamiliar with the project: these workshops are part of the larger, ongoing project to chart the historical, cultural, geographical, and textual development of Jewish feuilletons and feuilletonists across the globe.

Format: Speakers will provide contextual information on their text and offer a brief interpretation of the text. Question and answer as well as open discussion will follow the talks with the goal of building connections to other contexts and texts within the study of modern Jewish cultures. Text materials, both in original and in partial translation, will be available a week prior to the event.

Zoom RSVP: To ensure a collegial workshop atmosphere, we ask kindly that you RSVP via the UM Zoom Registration Page with your name and email address. You will receive a Zoom link and copies of texts and translations for the workshop: https://myumi.ch/QA4dg

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:40:27 -0500 2021-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Workshop / Seminar JR 1930 Nr29 Rahel Szalit - Pessach - pg 1
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82401 82401-21092284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Can inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines 'folk art' made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving, at others grotesque, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering, or upend accepted roles of victim, perpetrator, and bystander.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:03:59 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Slawomir Kosiniak, Untitled, ca. 1948, Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, photo by Wojciech Wilczyk
Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event: "The Historical Jesus in His Jewish Context" (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80033 80033-20548977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived, and died as a Jew. But what kind of Jew was he in the diverse world of Second Temple Judaism? How did the movement he initiated within Judaism move into the pagan world and become what we now call Christianity? Specialists Amy-Jill Levine and Gabriele Boccaccini will engage in a conversation about the latest research on the historical Jesus and explore the implication for contemporary Judaic Studies, followed by a response from Jeremiah Cataldo.
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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:12:44 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Amy-Jill Levin and Gabriele Boccaccini
31st Belin Lecture: Our Man in Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg, the United States, and the Myth of a Plan (March 16, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80009 80009-20541139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In the summer of 1944, nearly a decade after his graduation from the University of Michigan, Raoul Wallenberg arrived into the chaos of wartime Budapest, Hungary. Now internationally honored for his work as a Swedish businessman-turned-Holocaust rescuer, Wallenberg actually traveled to Hungary to carry out “a humanitarian mission in [sic] behalf of the War Refugee Board,” a newly-established United States government agency tasked with trying to save the surviving Jews of Europe. This lecture explores Wallenberg’s work as revealed in United States government records: the context of his selection; the schemes proposed by the War Refugee Board staff; and the constant communication problems that ultimately kept Washington in the dark about much of his work, and Wallenberg unaware of their requests of him. As the situation in Hungary worsened, Wallenberg felt empowered to move from the vague initial plans of relief to embarking upon dangerous rescue work. Unfortunately, although his colleagues at the Swedish legation in Budapest did not know of his American ties, it is almost certain that the Soviet Union, his eventual captor and likely executioner, did.

Photo Credit: HS 59, U-M A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Publications, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:46:52 -0500 2021-03-16T19:30:00-04:00 2021-03-16T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual HS 59, U-M A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Publications, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
Mourners are the Soundtrack of Life: Mourning, Time, and Aesthetic Geographies of the South in a Mizrahi Singer’s Antibiography (March 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82313 82313-21066622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In this seminar, Re’ee Hagay will describe the mourning interwoven into the process of writing Ahuva ʿOzeri’s biography. The non-linear temporality of the mourning produced by the child mourner from Tel Aviv’s Yemenite Quarter is juxtaposed with national representations of Yemeni Jews, constructed as an origin of Jewish homogeneity rooted in the past. Re’ee focuses on ʿOzeri’s cinematic performance against the background of south Tel Aviv, revealing a twofold memory of loss, both Mizrahi and Palestinian. ʿOzeri emerges as a singer who drew on multiple resources of mourning positioned across putative national and regional borders of urban and global Southern geographies. ʿOzeri is narrated not only as a child mourner but also as the last mourner, in the face of progressive national time. Re’ee concludes by asking what is lost with the last mourner’s departure from the world, when one loses the ability to recognize one’s own loss through its reflection in the other’s ruins. Re’ee will be joined by respondent Tamar Sella.

Re’ee Hagay is a cultural theorist and ethnographer of Mizrahi aesthetics and a PhD student in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. His work focuses on time, mourning, and globalization in Mizrahi popular culture. Work in progress includes “From Silence to Silence: (In)Audible Limits of a Transnational Dialogue” about the relationship between Edward Said, Daniel Barenboim, and Richard Wagner; and, with Jonathan Boyarin, a bibliographical essay on the Jewish diaspora.

Tamar Sella received her PhD in Ethnomusicology in May 2020 from Harvard University, where she is also currently a Visiting Fellow in Music. Her work cuts across sound and performance studies, feminist and queer theory, and Jewish history. Her dissertation, “Resonant Ancestors: Arab Jewish Memory on the Israeli Stage,” which she is currently revising into a book for publication, explores the negotiations of ancestral memories in contemporary performance by Mizrahi Jews in Israel/Palestine toward reimagining decolonial and diasporic futures. Tamar’s own ancestors are Jews from Poland, Ukraine, and Yemen, and she grew up moving between Israel and the U.S. As an organizer, writer, and sometimes performer, Tamar also has a secondary area in American music, where she examines aesthetics in jazz and improvised music in relation to gender and race formations.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:52:25 -0500 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Re'ee and Tamar
Trauma and Memory: Thinking from Somali Diasporic Contexts (March 25, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81954 81954-20996854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This workshop focuses on how geographies continue to limit our thinking, even our potentialities in how we might think our Opacity/ies and Relation/s to each other. In particular, following Alhaag’s invitation to think from Somalia, she asks, what is yielded when we think colonially bifurcated geographies together? When in Alhaag’s words we imagine and care for each other 'from different oceans and seas that wrap around the African continent'? A description to Alhaag’s related curatorial project will be available in a temporary Dropbox link (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y2kqddexyrrlxw8/AAAokTzyfj_Lhlu16CO6SI29a?dl=0) .

Following Alhaag’s call, Benedicty-Kokken invites us to consider Igiaba Scego’s writing. Notably, Benedicty-Kokken has chosen excerpts from two texts in which Scego deploys a Jewish-Muslim friendship:
-the first, Scego’s novel *Adua* originally published in Italian in 2015, and translated from the Italian into English in 2017, recounts the historical and geopolitical connections among Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and Italy through stories of four generations implicated in the region;
-the second, the children’s book *Prestami le ali* [Lend Me Your Wings], illustrated by Fabio Visintin, based imaginatively on a true story of a rhinoceros who/that a Dutch merchant brought for show in Venice in the 1750s: it tells the story of a Jewish girl and a Somali enslaved boy, and their collective care for the rhinoceros, and each other. The children’s story emerges from a project titled *Remapping the Ghetto* led by professor Shaul Bassi at Università Ca’ Foscari (including writers Scego herself, Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Philipps), and was workshopped with students from the school Carlo Pisacane (Tor Pignattara, Rome) with their teacher Vania Borsetti.
For more about Scego’s work see Benedicty-Kokken’s article, Giulia Riccò’s interview with Scego, and an interview with Scego about the children’s book. Excerpts of Scego’s novel are available through a temporary Dropbox link.

Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam-based independent curator, dj and researcher who develops ongoing experimental and collaborative research practice, public programs and projects on global spatial politics, archives, colonialism, counter-culture, oral histories and popular culture. Her projects and collaborations with people, initiatives and institutions invite, stage, question and play with ‘uncomfortable’ issues that riddle, rewrite, remix, share and compose narratives in impermanent settings. She is co-founder of several initiatives, including Metro54, a platform for experimental sonic, dialogic and visual culture and the Side Room: a room for eccentric practices and people together with artist Maria Guggenbichler (2013-2016). Alhaag is currently part of the curatorial team of the quadrennial sonsbeek2020-2024 in Arnhem, Netherlands; senior research & public programmer at the Research Center for Material Culture, Netherlands and curatorial and research fellow at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar.

Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken is Research Coordinator and Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Material Culture at the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen in the Netherlands. Headed by Wayne Modest, the role of the RCMC is to critically interrogate the historical legacies of ‘the ethnographic museum.’ She has a series of articles that interrogate what Sarah Phillips Casteel names “the rhetorical oppositionality of ‘Black’ and ‘Jew’”. Her books are: *Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought: An Intellectual History* (2015); the co-edited “Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet,” a special issue of *Yale French Studies* (2016), and also co-edited *The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative* (2016). Alessandra currently holds an affiliation with Gender Studies at Utrecht University, and was formerly Associate Professor of Caribbean and Postcolonial Studies and French at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center (City University of New York). She is Series Editor for Brill’s Caribbean Series, Book Reviews Editor for the *Journal of Haitian Studies*, and member of the FACE Foundation’s French Voices selection committee. She has engaged two career tracks in academe and in culture diplomacy, at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. and NYC as well as at the Québec Government House in NYC.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:56:57 -0500 2021-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken and Amal Alhaag
Opposition to Nazi Rule in Experience and Memory (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79713 79713-20460252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The rescue that we know is the rescue of memory. Driven by the search for heroes and "righteous gentiles," and relying on interviews, conducted decades after the event, the public commemoration and the academic scholarship of rescue have been largely oblivious to the ways in which the experience of rescue has been refracted and reworked in postwar memory. Using the remarkable archive of the League of Socialist Life, this talk seeks both to understand the wartime experience of helping Jews and to historicize the postwar remembrance of resistance and rescue.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:45:47 -0500 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Mark Roseman Publicity Image
Yom Hashoah: Legacies of the Holocaust: Antisemitism in the 20th and 21st Centuries (April 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83127 83127-21274910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Please join us for this special Yom Hashoah program, presented by Dr. Amy Simon of Michigan State University. Dr. Simon will explore the legacy of the hatred of Jews during the Holocaust and how and why it continues to impact the globe.

This program is presented by the Israel Center @ the J in partnership with the Eastern Michigan University Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Dr. Martin Shichtman, director of the EMU Center for Jewish Studies and professor in the EMU Department of English will introduce Dr. Simon, and Dr. Jeff Veidlinger, the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies will moderate the question and answer period.

There is no charge to participate but please register to secure the online event. For registration assistance or to register by phone, please call our Welcome Center at (734) 971-0990 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m, or register online at
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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:55:44 -0400 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Amy Simon
Islam, Judaism, and Decoloniality with Santiago Slabodsky and Sanober Umar (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82649 82649-21153690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In this seminar on Islam, Judaism, and decoloniality, Santiago Slabodsky and Sanober Umar suggest some paths towards disrupting/decentering (Eurocentric) intellectual epistemic hegemonies in the broadly defined fields of Jewish Studies and Islamic/Muslim Studies. Together, they will reflect on how we can draw on Southern epistemologies to broaden the horizon of Jewish and Muslim studies. In particular, Professor Slabodsky, the author of Decolonial Judaism, connects Jewish history and thought with the histories and presents of anti-colonial and decolonial struggles, thus exploring what a decolonial Judaism would look like in the twenty-first century. Similarly, Professor Umar, who is writing a book on the histories and global politics of "racing" and gendering Islam, seeks to complicate and decolonize our ideas of the "Muslim World," specifically from a Global South/Indian Muslim perspective, foregrounding caste, racialization, and gender.

Santiago Slabodsky is the Robert and Florence Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Hofstra University. He writes about intercultural encounters between Jewish and Global South social theories and political movements. His book Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking received the 2017 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. His research interests include Jewish thought and culture, colonialism and decoloniality, sociology of knowledge, Latin American, North African, and Middle Eastern histories, religion and politics, inter-religious conversations, Jewish-Muslim dialogue, critical theories of religion and society, and race and globalization.

Sanober Umar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at York University. Her current work explores the relationship (and critical distinctions) between caste and racial hierarchies, and how these entanglements-along with gender and class dynamics-inform the figure of the Muslim in Indian and (neoliberal) world politics. For her upcoming project, Dr. Umar is investigating the histories and global politics of "racing" and gendering Islam as religion including mainstream and academic discursive productions of a universalized and flexible "Muslim World".

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:55:18 -0500 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Santiago Slabodsky and Sanober Umar
Frankel Institute Event Series: Stranger Still: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Israel/Palestine (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83142 83142-21280847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Our final installment of the “Stranger Still” series features the poets Sheikha Hlewa and Yosefa Raz, who will read selections of their poems and translations in Arabic and English. They will join series organizers Adriana X. Jacobs and Alex Moshkin in a conversation about their experiences as Arabic and English-language writers in Israel/Palestine and Raz’s English translations of Helawy’s Arabic poetry.

Sheikha Hussein Hlewa was born in Dhayl 'Araj, an unrecognized Bedouin village outside of Haifa in 1968 and attended the Sisters of Nazareth School in Haifa. She later moved to Jaffa and studied for a BA and MA in Arabic and Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University. An educator by profession, Hlewa has worked as a teacher of Arabic and, more recently, as the educational program director for schools in East Jerusalem. Her poems and stories have been published online and in print in the Arab world. She is the author of the poetry collection Outside the Seasons I Learned How to Fly (2015, خارج الفصول تعلّمت الطيران), and three short-story collections: The Ladies of Twilight (2015, سيّدات العتمة), Windows are Spoiled Books (2016, النوافذ كتب رديئة) and Order C345 (2018, c345 الطلبيّة), which won the 2019 Almultaqa Prize in the short-story category and was translated into Hebrew by Ilana Hammerman as A Pause for Barking (Afik, 2020). A new collection of poetry, Maybe We’ll Need More than a Forest, is forthcoming in an Arabic-Hebrew bilingual edition, with Hebrew translations by the poet Rachel Peretz. She is currently working on her PhD on “Individual and Collective Concerns in Contemporary Palestinian Women’s Poetry” at Bar Ilan University.

Yosefa Raz is a poet, translator, and scholar. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Haifa. She completed her PhD in the joint doctoral program in Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, where she received the Goor Essay Prize in Jewish Studies and the Eisner Prize in poetry. Her poetry books include In Exchange for a Homeland, and the chapbooks This Rumor of Darger’s Armies of Girls, and All these years practicing while momentous events were happening all around. With Adriana X. Jacobs and Shachar Pinsker, she translated Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American Shores, focusing on the work of Anne Kleiman. Her translations of Tahel Frosh, Ya’akov Biton (with Shaul Setter) and Sheikha Hlewa have appeared in The Ilanot Review, Dibur, World Literature Today, and the Boston Review. Her poetry and essays have also appeared recently in Entropy, Jacket2, Guernica, and the LA Review of Books. Her scholarship is focused on the often fraught transformation of prophecy into poetry, and reflections on this topic can be read in articles published in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and Modern Language Quarterly, and in a forthcoming book, tentatively titled The Poetics of Prophecy.

Sheikha Hussein Hlewa’s photo credit: Sophie Snir Shaar
Yosefa Raz photo credit: Lydia Daniller


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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:09:07 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Sheikha Hlewa and Yosefa Raz
The Buddha in 10th-17th Century Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Narratives (April 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80743 80743-20783434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The history of exchange between Buddhists and Arabs began in pre-Islamic times and flourished in the Abbasid period with the translation of Sanskrit texts into Arabic and the adaptation of different biographies of the Buddha. Focusing on the transmission of the story of the Buddha’s life into Arabic in the tenth century, this lecture examines a Muslim philosophical text, Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa (The Epistles of the Sincere Brothers or the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), that quotes the Buddha alongside respected prophets and philosophers from different religious backgrounds and retells the story of the Buddha’s life. The lecture examines the role of the story of the Buddha’s life in the philosophy of Ikhwan al-Safa and its reception by Christian and Jewish communities.
Image Credit: Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:45:33 -0500 2021-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
Defining Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Lessons from UK Universities (April 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82650 82650-21153691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

An ongoing debate over the adoption of group specific definitions of racism and prejudice in UK universities raises vital questions for scholars and students of Jewish-Muslim Relations and related fields. How have the efforts to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Islamophobia shaped university responses to discrimination? To what extent can definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia help remedy patterns of prejudicial behavior? Should these efforts be undertaken jointly, if at all?
Drawing on recent discussions at UCL, and considering wider international debates and alternative definitions, this talk will explore the challenges and opportunities for cross-communal solidarity and mutual understanding of the lived experience of discrimination.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:54:47 -0500 2021-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Seth Anziska
Book Launch & Conversation: "The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond" (May 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82068 82068-21015022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the “Jewish Question,” as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews as the ultimate other. With the onset of Zionism, this “question” migrated to Palestine and intensified under British colonial rule and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Zionism’s attempt to solve the “Jewish Question” created what came to be known as the “Arab Question,” which concerned the presence and rights of the Arab population in Palestine. For the most part, however, Jewish settlers denied or dismissed the question they created, to the detriment of both Arabs and Jews in Palestine and elsewhere.

This book brings together leading scholars to consider how these two questions are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights. Together, the essays show that the Arab and Jewish questions, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which they have become subsumed, belong to the same thorny history. Despite their major differences, the historical Jewish and Arab questions are about the political rights of oppressed groups and their inclusion within exclusionary political communities—a question that continues to foment tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Shedding new light on the intricate relationships among Orientalism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, and the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book reveals the inseparability of Arab and Jewish struggles for self-determination and political equality.

Bashir Bashir is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is the co-editor of The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (Columbia University Press, 2018).

Moshe Behar holds a PhD from Columbia University and is Associate Professor and Programme Director, Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester. The title of his chapter is “Competing Marxisms, Cessation of (Settler) Colonialism, and the One-State Solution in Israel/Palestine,” in The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagementin Palestine and Beyond (Bashir Bashir & Leila Farsakh, eds, Columbia University Press).

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Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/3216131581216/WN_56Kv4OYQS76zlUHxi8j58g

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:59:38 -0500 2021-05-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual "The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond"
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature (May 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82652 82652-21153693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Joseph Ford is joined by Imen Neffati to discuss his new book Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature, which examines how literature—and the way we read, classify, and critique literature—impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested Algerian Civil War as a case study, Joseph Ford argues that, while literature is frequently understood as an illuminating and emancipatory tool, it can, in fact, restrain our understanding of the world during a time of crisis and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to conflict in the first place. Ford demonstrates how Francophone Algerian literature, along with the cultural and academic criticism that has surrounded it, has mobilized visions of Algeria over the past thirty years that often belie the complex and multi-layered realities of power, resistance, and conflict in the region.
Joseph Ford is Lecturer in French Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Modern Languages Research in London. He is the author of Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature (2021). He specializes in contemporary French and Francophone Literature and Culture, with specific interests in Algeria and what has become known as the Algerian Civil War or "Black Decade" of the 1990s. His wider research interests are in postcolonial studies, world literature, literary translation, and French and Francophone intellectual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Imen Neffati is Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is a historian of modern France and North Africa, with a broader interest in religion, secularism, and modernity. Her research concerns the study of religious identities, particularly Muslim identities in North Africa and France. She is currently building up a project that examines inheritance law and debates over its reform in Tunisia. She is also working on a monograph that examines the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and its predecessor Hara Kiri.

Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpduqvqD8uEtfuYmNPvI6kBQ3ofB4gKwkc

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 09:54:29 -0400 2021-05-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Imen and Joseph
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
Special Issue Launch: Sectarianization in Southeast Asia and Beyond (May 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82227 82227-21058458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Co-editors Saleena Saleem and Alexander Arifianto present their forthcoming special issue of *Religion, State and Society*, which analyzes cases of sectarianism in Southeast Asia and beyond. They are joined by respondents Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, co-editors of *Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East* (2017 ). The issue features case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Turkey and shows how sectarianism among intra-Sunni Muslim groups are largely driven from political considerations to promote regime survival (in both authoritarian and democratic contexts) and patronage, protect established national narratives on Muslim identity, and gain ‘political affirmation’ to increase group’s influence and membership. Collectively, the issue seeks to provide a better understanding of the multi-dimensionality of sectarian identity across Muslim-majority societies.

Alexander R. Arifianto is a Research Fellow with the Indonesia Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include political Islam and contemporary Indonesian politics. His articles have appeared in journals such as *Religion, State, and Society, Asia Policy, and Trans-National* and *Regional Studies of Southeast Asia (TRaNS)*.

Saleena Saleem is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are on the political sociology of Muslim societies in Southeast Asia, with a focus on ethno-religious and gender politics. Her work has appeared in journals such as *Religion, State, and Society, Sociology of Islam*, and *Asia Maior*.

Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of *Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies* (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of *Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East *(Oxford University Press, 2017).

Danny Postel is Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of *Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran* (2006) and co-editor of *Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East* (2017).

Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqc-quqjIpH9DVLKvtDFf27kfqYohYOW9N

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:01:22 -0500 2021-05-27T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-27T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion publicity
Author Talk: Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero (June 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84083 84083-21619871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Superman is the most famous character in the world. He’s the first superhero, an American icon — and he’s Jewish!

Author Roy Schwartz discusses his new book, "Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero," exploring the underlying themes of a beloved modern mythology in a fascinating and entertaining journey through Jewish tradition, American history, and comic book lore, sure to give readers a newfound appreciation for the Mensch of Steel!

Register at https://umlib.us/superman

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 May 2021 16:35:23 -0400 2021-06-16T15:00:00-04:00 2021-06-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Detail from the book cover of "Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero," by Roy Schwartz.
Judaic Studies Open House (September 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86700 86700-21635600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Stop by the Judaic Studies office, grab a snack, and say hello! Meet other students in the department and ask our advisor questions about degree programs and classes.

We have missed you!

Located on the second floor of the South Thayer Building, 202 S Thayer St., Suite 2111.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:11:11 -0400 2021-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Reception / Open House Bagels
The Three Paths to Salvation of Paul the Jew (September 30, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85778 85778-21628986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

What did Paul, as an apocalyptic Jew and follower of Jesus, think about the concept of Salvation? Paul did not convert nor break with his inherited traditions but was part of the lively diversity of Second Temple Judaism. Boccaccini’s ‘Paul’s Three Paths to Salvation’ is an attempt to reconcile the many facets of Paul’s complex Jewish identity while reclaiming him from accusations of intolerance. Boccaccini’s work in reestablishing Paul as a messenger of God’s mercy to sinners is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about Paul’s place in the contemporary pluralistic world.

This review panel includes an introduction by the author (Gabriele Boccaccini), review presentations by Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary), Isaac Oliver (Bradley University), Matthew Novenson (University of Edinburgh), Cecilia Wassen (Uppsala University), and Emma Wasserman (Rutgers University), followed by an open dialogue among participants.

Register for this virtual event here:https://tinyurl.com/a3szndvk

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:14:15 -0400 2021-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Gabriele Boccaccini's "Paul's Three Paths to Salvation"
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-03T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Abrahamic Vernaculars Fall Symposium in conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby (October 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87177 87177-21639247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join Dr. Richard Newton of The University of Alabama, speaking on “'Myths ‘that the Dark Past Has Taught Us’: Beyond Liberation in Black Religion" and Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler of Xavier University discussing “The Return of Prairie Dress: YouTube as Site for Interreligious Dialogue and Mainstream Modest Fashion Trends” for a conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby of The University of Michigan. This symposium is part of the Abrahamic Vernaculars series.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:19:31 -0400 2021-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Abrahamic Vernaculars
Ethiopian Jews: The Politics of Difference in Israeli Historiography (October 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87178 87178-21639309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Frankel Center for a symposium on "Ethiopean Jews: The Politics of Difference in Israeli Historiography." Efrat Yerday, PhD Candidate at Tel Aviv University, will examine the political struggle of Ethiopian Jewish activists for naturalization in Israel from 1955 up to 1975. Dr. Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh will be discussing the changing relations between ethnic culture and skin color among Ethiopian Israelis, from the early years of migration to today. He will focus on how categories of difference and group formation are linked to particular social spaces, networks, opportunities, and policing, as well as the social and political consequences of the changing classification structure. The talks will be in conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby of the University of Michigan.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/xmYNE

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:52:47 -0400 2021-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Ethiopian Jews Symposium
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Edgefest: Steve Swell’s If Trains Could Speak (October 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88741 88741-21657249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This is currently scheduled as the final set of the Grand Finale Evening of Edgefest at the Bethlehem United Church of Christ on 4th Ave. on Saturday evening (Oct. 30). The full program begins at 7 pm. All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. Steve Swell is one of the finest composers/improvisers on the New York downtown scene and is internationally acclaimed for his trombone playing. He has performed regularly in Europe, often in Poland, where he has established important connections with local musicians. On one of his many trips to Kraków he decided to visit Auschwitz:

“The first time I tried to visit Auschwitz in 2007, there was no train. They had changed the track of the train that regularly departed for there. They announced the track change in Polish but not in English. There were about two very angry people yelling and screaming at the ticket sellers and railroad staff as to this oversight. Can you imagine, people yelling that they missed the train to Auschwitz and that it had ruined their day?”

Later he wrote: If “Trains Could Speak” is inspired by that ninety-minute train ride from Krakow to Auschwitz concentration camp. The ride itself is through some very beautiful, peaceful countryside and farmland in southeast Poland. The incongruity of my ride and the ride of those whose trip seventy years before was one of uncertainty and hopelessness prompted a multitude of thoughts and feelings as the train progressed to its destination. The journey and visit to the camp itself sparked a deeper understanding of the horrors that humans are capable of and
its juxtaposition to our ability to be brilliant, creative, and tolerant. Delving into the choice we have in either surrendering to our baser instincts or to transcend them, feeds my own lifelong curiosity of what it means to be alive, and to know that life is fragile, dangerous, and magnificent all at the same time.

In addition to the composer on trombone, the performance will feature Deanna Relyea, mezzo soprano, Jason Kao Hwang, violin, viola, Piotr Michalowski, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, Steve Rush, piano, Ken Filiano, bass, and Michael TA Thompson, percussion.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask.

Visit https://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/edgefest/ for festival or single event tickets.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:17:31 -0400 2021-10-30T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Fair / Festival Steve Swell
The Band's Visit (November 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88559 88559-21655082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Thursday, November 4
7-9pm
North Quad, Space 2435
105 S. State Street

This comedy-drama is about a band of the Egyptian police force heading to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. Following the film, there will be a short faculty-led discussion. This event is free and open to the public and there will be popcorn!

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this screening, please contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047 in advance of the event.

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Film Screening Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:24:18 -0400 2021-11-04T19:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening The Band's Visit
“I Know Who Caused COVID-19": Pandemics and Xenophobia (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88010 88010-21648525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Sander Gilman, Emory University
Zhou Xun, University of Essex
with Alaa Murad, Brandeis University

One of the most evident manifestation of the present pandemic has been the blaming of traditional (and non-traditional) out-groups for causing or spreading the virus. The Chinese, Muslims, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, American White Nationalists among other groups have been blamed. Central to our recently published book “I Know Who Caused COVID-19": Pandemics and Xenophobia (Reaktion Press / University of Chicago Press) is the question of what happens when such groups are blamed and simultaneously at fault? Dr. Gilman and Dr. Zhou examined a series of case studies but closed our book on January 20, 2021. The story continues past that date to the present and they will address both the first year as well as the present Delta surge in the light of our model of xenophobia and pandemics in this symposium with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the Jewish Muslim Research Network.

Advanced Registration Required: https://myumi.ch/Axw1y

Dr ZHOU, Xun is the reader in History at the University of Essex. Her research interests range from medicine, health intervention and delivery in modern China to nutrition, food and narcotics, and more broadly the political history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well as questions of race and ethnicity. She also have a track record in trans-cultural/global studies and have built up a profile in the history of global health. She is the author of The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949-1983 (McGill-Queen University Press, 2020), the first systematic study on health care and medicine in Mao’s China. From the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, she has been regularly interviewed by major media outlets from the BBC to the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Aljazeera, to name a few, to comment on the outbreak in Wuhan and the Chinese health system as well as to speak on historical correlates of the global pandemic.



Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over one hundred books. His “I Know Who Caused COVID-19”: Pandemics and Xenophobia (with Zhou Xun) appeared with Reaktion Press (London) in 2021; his most recent edited volume is The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body (with Youn Kim) published in 2019 with Oxford University Press. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996 and 2014) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986, which is still in print. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. For four years he was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he created the ‘Humanities Laboratory.’ During 1990-1991 he served as the Visiting Historical Scholar at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; 1996-1997 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA; 2000-2001 as a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; 2004-5 as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University; 2007 to 2012 as Professor at the Institute in the Humanities, Birkbeck College; 2010 to 2013 as a Visiting Research Professor at The University of Hong Kong; and recently as the Alliance Professor of History at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (2017-18). He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997, elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin (2000), an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2007), and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).

Alaa Murad is a PhD candidate in history at Brandeis University focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. Her current research focuses on the appropriation of classical and medieval Islamic texts in Arabic popular history and historical fiction during the19th-century. She is interested in the didactic aspects and socio-political characteristics of nahḍa intellectualism as well as in the competing historical claims over national and religious identities emergent during the same period. Murad holds a Joint MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Conflict and Coexistence Studies from Brandeis University.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:50:44 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Graffiti on Calle del Doctor Luis Calandre in Cartagena (Spain), in which the pandemic is referred to as a "corona-mentira" ("corona-lie") and connects with Anti-Semitic and Anti-Chinese rhetoric through the inclusion of a Mogen Covid and a Chinese character. Taken 14 February 2021
Magic and its Malcontents: Historiography as Heresiology (November 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88011 88011-21648526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Shaily Shashikant Patel, Virginia Tech

“Strange things circulate below our streets,” Michel de Certeau writes. For him, coherent historiographies elide incoherent realities and give the illusion of a past which can be tidily reconstructed. The study of “magic” in early Christian literature illustrates how such scholarly preference for coherence occludes ancient ambiguities. Prevailing methodologies emphasize the “constructedness” of magic, defining it as a polemical charge levied at theological outsiders. This methodology obtains in early Christian studies even as adjacent fields refine their ideas of ancient magic. Rather tellingly, this methodology also presupposes that theological insiders exist in our earliest sources.

In this talk, Dr. Shaily Patel, Virginia Tech, discuss how these polemical notions of “magic” make historians into heresiologists. Like our ancient counterparts, we dismiss what troubles the scholarly orthodoxy of nascent Christianity as opposed to magic. Perhaps we agree with de Certeau that history is never sure, but our methodologies yield the same illusory certainty adopted by heresiologists who helped ossify Christian orthodoxy. Ancient magic exposes our heresiological inclinations and forces us to contend with what lingers below our streets.

“A history that is never sure is not no history; rather, it is a history of possibility.”

Register here: https://myumi.ch/4pxv3

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:41 -0400 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Image
Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event: “When Patronage was ‘Matronage’: How Jewish Women’s Money Supported the Early Jesus Movement” (November 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88653 88653-21656497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Stuart and Barbara Padnos Foundation has provided a gift to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies to establish the Padnos Engagement on Jewish Learning fund. The initiative, which commenced last year, will facilitate annual public educational activities in Jewish Studies throughout the State of Michigan with a focus on the western part of the state.

The Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event, to take place on November 17 at 7 pm, will feature Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld, Frankel Institute Fellow, University of Michigan, and Honorary Research Fellow, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (SIIBS). Dr. Sheinfeld will present a lecture called “When Patronage was ‘Matronage’: How Jewish Women’s Money Supported the Early Jesus Movement” at the Loosemore Auditorium at the Richard M. Devos Center on Grand Valley State University's Campus. The event will also be virtually simulcast. Immediately following the lecture at approximately 8:30 there will be a light reception in the adjacent Lubbers Exhibition Hall.

Dr. Sheinfeld prefaces her discussion: "From the beginning of his ministry, women were followers of Jesus. While his followers came from every strata of life, women were essential for the financial and social support that this early Jewish movement saw. The Gospel of Mark mentions Mary Magdalene and Salome who provided for Jesus; Luke talks about Martha who hosts Jesus and his disciples in her home; in Acts, Lydia welcomes the apostle Paul and his cohort to her home where they stay while in Thyatira. These women were not unusual, however, in their active financial and social support of causes they were committed to. This talk will explore and contextualize these women among other Jewish women as possessors of capital and as active actors in the social, political, and religious world in which they lived."

Register for the livestream here: https://myumi.ch/WQVjd

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:09:37 -0400 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld